The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Chapter 223: Monster Tide (2)

During the monster tide, there would be a lot of damage to the place where it happened. It is not something that can be changed unless someone can stop the monster tide before it happens.

No one has such power.

Even though there are powerhouses who can stop smaller monster tides, it would be underneath them to even think about those small monster tides.

In the kingdom, there would be a lot of monster tides happening from time to time. Most of them are considered small monster tides. This was not because they are actually small but the highest monster would not cross Tier-3 in those tides.

Sometimes there would be a Tier-4 mixed in that but unless there is more than one Tier-4 monster, it would be classified as a small monster tide.

After the small monster tide comes the medium monster tide, where the highest would be at Tier-6, maybe even Tier-7 which is controlling the tide. Similar to the small monster tide, unless there is more than one Tier-7 monster, the category of the monster tide would be medium.

The last one is a large monster tide, where Tier-9 monsters would be involved but most of the time only Tier-7 and Tier-8 monsters appear, with a rare performance from Tier-9 monsters. Also, these are very rare compared to the other two.

If a large monster tide occurs every now and then, then that kingdom would be fated for doom no matter how you look at it.

The damage and lives lost from a single large monster tide would be huge and if that is a recurring event, no one would be interested in staying in that place, no matter the benefits, especially the commoners.

Even if someone was interested in staying, the losses would be very high, which would cause cracks in their defence, making it easier for their enemies to act.

So no one would be foolish enough to stay in a place where there are frequent monster tides where monsters that were attacking them are Tier-7 and above.

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The kingdom wouldn't want to deal with such a mess on a regular basis. So they wouldn't officially encourage anyone to settle down in such lands.

Of course, even though there was no official encouragement, if there was someone who wanted to settle in such places, the kingdom would grant them special privileges and nothing more than that.

This was because, usually the monsters wouldn't raid a place where there are no resources. They would target areas near huge resources or magic concentration. This would be the main cause for their attacks on the settlements.

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Two Days Later...

It has been two days since I arrived at the town, waiting for the monster tide to appear. I know that the monster tide was informed that the tide was supposed to occur in three days and still there is a day for that.

Hoping for a disaster to happen a day before is not a good thing, in every aspect that one can think of but I was bored to death here.

I can't enter the Nexus, as that would cut me off from the outside. While in Nexus, I couldn't see what was happening outside.

If the monster tide appears before the specified date, then I might miss it. Moreover, if I am inside and someone enters my room to call for the battle, then things might get problematic.

Everyone has secrets. Everyone knew about that, but those secrets would only keep you safe as long as they are a secret. Once it was known, then everyone would be on to you to get that, if they can get it.

So, in those two days, I did almost nothing. I ate, slept and did a small workout, which was nothing.

The mayor's office did assign me some duties though to patrol a part of the town. This is to find if any underground monsters dig from under the walls to enter the town bypassing the defences. If there are any, then we have to stop them and destroy those dug-out entrances.

Roar!

Thump! Thump!

Huh, what was that?

I immediately ran to the top of the battlement. From there everything could be seen easily, and I could see them clearly.

AIR HORN!!!!

That's the monster tide. It is here and its a day early. It's time to earn some EXP and some fame for myself.